parliamentary idiocy

is the disease that fetters its victims to an imaginary world, robbing them of all sense, memory and understanding of the rude outside world — so they count parliamentary victories as victories.

Recast in definition form from: “Indeed, it required that peculiar disease, a disease that, since 1848, has raged over the whole continent, "Parliamentary Idiocy,"--that fetters those whom it infects to an imaginary world, and robs them of all sense, all remembrance, all understanding of the rude outside world;--it required this "Parliamentary Idiocy" in order that the party of Order, which had, with its own hands, …”

parliamentary idiocy, n.Definitions

parliamentary idiocy